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Codec choices – but which one…
I am setting off to foreign shores in a few hours to edit a couple of rush commercials on my laptop!!
The intention is to have the material (Pal Digibeta) digitized on site by the studio (FCP / Kona / etc) then transfered to a portable hdd for me to do the edits from.
I normally work in 10bit uncompressed, but this time i will not be doing that. I intend to use ProRes422 but i’m really not sure which is the one to use standard or HQ.?
As i will leave the final compile to thursday when i return and can re-load direct from digibeta and do the final colour grade and sound mix, the quality is not necesarily an issue, but i also want to play safe and work as high as possible in case i need to use the edit material for the master playout….like i said, this is a very rush job.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Adam
Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
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my understanding is that prores 422 is 8 bit and prores 422 HQ is 10bit
Trent Whittington – Currently studying Associate Degree in Digital Television
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NOpe…both are 8-bit codecs.
ProRes HQ is higher quality…and since you are editing “offline” that would not be the best choice. Since this is the offline cut just capture as DV/PAL and edit that.
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Excuse me, they are both10-bit codcs. Typo. They are 10 bit codecs.
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